Pachter: Activision demanded Wii U Pro Controller

Activision forced Nintendo to design the Wii U Pro Controller, by refusing to develop Call of Duty for the system using only the GamePad.

Such a claim was made by Wedbush Securities games industry analyst Michael Pachter, who stated his belief that Nintendo’s new venture “isn’t going to work.”

“I don’t get it,” he remarked. “I think that essentially this is a solution in search of a problem. I mean, somebody had an idea – ‘let’s make the controller a tablet’ – and there aren’t many games that are going to take advantage of that.

“Activision never said anything to me, but I know that [for] big games like Call Of Duty they said, ‘No, we’re not putting it on there if you don’t give us a conventional controller.’ So they gave in.”

Pachter didn’t stop there, however, continuing to discuss the Wii as “gimmicky.”

“It worked, they got lucky, [but] I don’t think they’re getting lucky with Wii U,” he expressed. “I don’t think they suck – I just think that they really believe that, ‘If we’re still novel, everything we do will work.’ This isn’t going to work.

“Hardcore gamers will buy them; hardcore Nintendo fanboys will buy it. They could put out a piece of cardboard and say that it’ll play Mario and they’ll buy it.”

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1 Comment

MrXBob
July 16, 2012, 2:09 pm

Gotta love this guy. He makes sh*t up and people publish it. He even admits himself in this very interview that Activision haven’t spoken to him about it, and that he’s basically guessing. And yet the headlines (written by himself) everywhere are “Activision demanded it”.

I can’t believe people still give this bullsh*tter the time of day. He’s an “analyst”. He sits in an office reading blogs and thinking about things. Then gets paid to spout bullsh*t about it.